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00:00It is caught! Touchdown!

00:04The New England Patriots select Drake May.

00:08He's got the ball! And that's the ball game!

00:12The boys are back again, the All-32 pod with you

00:16as we head into Week 2. Mike Giardi, Will Parkinson alongside

00:20Will, once again a really good slate. I was going through it, we're trying to separate

00:24like, what are the games we want to concentrate on and what are the games that we just want to

00:28kind of brush through and there weren't too many games that I wanted to brush through

00:32which again tells you sort of the intrigue of the early part of the NFL schedule.

00:36Yeah, even the games I feel like that are probably lesser than on the schedule this week

00:40are still either divisional games or games of teams that do have some type of playoff

00:44aspirations. Obviously coming off a Thursday night game, a lot less exciting

00:48than the Thursday night game we got a week ago.

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01:08They're excellent. And with that, let's get right into

01:12Bills and Dolphins. My son texted me last night before the

01:16game. He's a freshman in college. He texts me and he goes, I got bills tonight. I'm like,

01:20I'm always leery, a little leery. Buddy, I've taken the

01:24the road team on a Thursday night. You just, you know, they're beat up. Buffalo's got some issues.

01:28You know, you got Josh Allen with the big glove on his hand, etc.

01:32And as we were talking through it, then I was like, but you know what? I just got a feeling that

01:36Josh and the Bills are going to continue their mastery of the Dolphins. And my

01:40goodness, Will, what an absolute beating. We'll get to the two

01:44injury, but just in terms of what the product was on the field.

01:48I mean, one sided is one side. It could be. Yeah.

01:52The Bills Dolphins is, I believe it's 12 out of 13. Now the only

01:56one was two years ago. I believe we too, and that like the

02:00bills ran like I think like 95 offensive plays and they only scored 20 points.

02:04They got stopped down there on the goal line and things like that. So, you know, all that

02:08aside, like they've owned this matchup, Josh Allen's own to a quote

02:12unquote and McDermott's had McDaniel's number and we've seen playoff games. We've seen

02:16games to get in the playoffs. We've seen primetime. We saw we've seen all of it.

02:20I would say the thing that stood out the most last night is

02:24Buffalo's super banged up. I mean defensively. He's the one

02:28drive. Miami looks good. We saw no Mount Milano stood out quite evidently. And then

02:32Terrell Bernard goes down trail, but he's budding star for them. Yeah, then

02:36he goes out. So there's a lot there that was concerning. I guess

02:40for that one drive from Buffalo's perspective, but other than that, they pushed him around. I thought Miami

02:44abandoned the run far too quickly. They should have gone heavy personnel and just tried to beat

02:48Buffalo up inside. They kind of got away from that thrown routes

02:52to third force fifth string receivers. Tyreek was weird

02:56last night. Like he kept taking himself off the field over after one play taking myself off.

03:00They'd get a lot of the bullets on to obviously makes multiple

03:04really bad decisions. I thought everyone's kind of giving Robbie Anderson all or Robbie

03:08chosen. I apologize all the blame on that one. And yes, he did slip but like that ball was air

03:12mailed no matter what I don't it doesn't matter who it was Tyreek's a lot smaller than

03:16than Robbie chosen. So I don't know that that would have gone in Tyreek's hands either.

03:20Obviously the pick six was horrendous in the game was out of hand, but you know Miami

03:24couldn't stop Buffalo either Jalen Ramsey getting beat by you know, Ty Johnson for

03:28a 30-yard plate like there was just Miami's been

03:32now at home back-to-back weeks and for outside of that fourth quarter

03:36the ETN fumble through the fourth quarter the other seven quarters. They've looked

03:40really bad on both sides of the football. The offense hasn't gotten going

03:44now. Obviously the looming to injury is a huge question mark and we'll get to that in a moment, but

03:48I just felt like overall. I don't really understand

03:52kind of what their plan is when they go to play Buffalo. It feels like they abandon

03:56the run every time so quickly and I feel like that's their biggest advantage. We watched in jets

04:00Niners that like this schemes really hard to prepare for and these defenses that sit in zone,

04:04you know, there's there's lighter boxes. So go

04:08attack it. I just I was frustrated by McDaniel last night because I felt like

04:12when they were pounding the ball early on a chain Etc and then they were just

04:16throwing the ball to guys that again, not the Tyreek some of the world

04:20that and then three turnovers, you're never going to win a game against Buffalo like that. Yeah,

04:24it makes you wonder sometimes like look McDaniel has obviously done a nice job there,

04:28but they haven't gotten over the hump. There's a lot of pressure. I think I mentioned this Tyreek Hill

04:32said coming out of training camp. This is the best team we've had since we've been

04:36there, but sometimes it feels like and you brought it up

04:40up like getting away from the run as early as they did that they're trying to do it with style

04:44points more than they're just trying to say some of our guys are just better than

04:48your guys and we're going to win that way and sometimes that means to your point

04:52running the football and not launching it all over the place and having these cute

04:56little underhand flicks and all these different things that they like to add to their offense, which

05:00again, it's it's wonderful when it's working, but when it's not you just say to yourself

05:04what's your I what when you have to be a power football

05:08team can you be a power football team and we saw last night

05:12as the game wore on. It's just not something that they're they're they're committed to

05:16doing and right now feel like they have the personnel to do. Yeah. I don't want to be super

05:20negative as if Buffalo didn't play really well last night. I thought they were really good at the line of scrimmage. I thought they

05:24tackled. Well, good eye discipline as I mentioned. I think they benefited from Miami

05:28some bad turnovers, you know different things of that nature, but Josh Allen

05:32when you need 129 yards and a touchdown didn't have to be you know

05:36Superman, although he made some obviously special plays. I just felt like they

05:40they really leaned on the run game. They exposed Miami and in that department and I thought it

05:44was a really well coach really well executed game Buffalo. I don't think they were

05:48particularly great last week, especially in the first half, but going forward, you know, they've

05:52now built themselves a comfortable, you know game lead and you know, we'll

05:56see obviously how this season unfolds, but I think you know that week six matchup

06:00circled with the Jets as the you know, especially with the news with the with

06:04Tua right now and it feels like the biggest game on Buffalo's schedule for the next

06:08month or a month and a half. Mike obviously Tua

06:12getting hurt last night. It's it's the fourth concussion. I believe in the last

06:16what 24 months fourth or fifth. I guess that since back they've been back to college

06:20to has been injury prone throughout his career in Alabama.

06:24I think he'd what the five surgeries before he got to the NFL and obviously

06:28struggle with injuries coming into the NFL when he's in the NFL and the concussions are obviously

06:32much different than you know, even the hip injury, which was so crazy when that happened. I feel like we

06:36gloss over that injury back to college. The Bo Jackson injury

06:40last night was scary from the aspect it and I mean

06:44this with all seriously. I guy

06:48very much respect the seriousness of it other than the Bengals one. It feels

06:52like his other concussions. We've witnessed in the last couple years have been

06:56not massive the massive targeting headshots

07:00not the receiver going over the middle of the quarterback going to slide in his head getting

07:04destroyed or any of those type of things. The punt returner the ones you know, you see

07:08on YouTube and Twitter that go viral. These are especially last night

07:12a very normal tackle. If anything kind of a not a great

07:16tackle by tomorrow and when he kind of just like took the took the shot, you know to his chest a little bit

07:20and the whiplash from Tua seems to be where these things unfortunately seem

07:24to occur and obviously the posting or whatever it's called, you know, when every

07:28kind of sees up there. Yeah, obviously it's

07:32whenever it happens. It's scary. I think it just from my perspective. It was unfortunate

07:36is the head seem to be less and less severe

07:40and the reaction seem to continue to get more severe and I think that's what's really scary

07:44for you know, what 26 27 year old now who's experiencing this. It

07:48seems like over and over in a year after he just played a whole season, which was so amazing to see

07:52gets the well-deserved contract just that it sucked.

07:56It was it was a bad game, but it sucked to see that is the result of last night. Yeah

08:00to your point. It was sort of an innocuous play. You just

08:04I mean, how many times do we see that that hit in the course of the game and hits

08:08on quarterbacks like that or get out of the pocket Herbstreet Kirk Herbstreet

08:12brought up something on the broadcast that I don't know if he's gotten crap for but I know how

08:16Society works these days and I wouldn't be surprised if he did but I agree with him a hundred

08:20percent in that he said sometimes Tua gets a little reckless and doesn't

08:24do a great job of protecting himself and remember that was the whole thing

08:28going into last year about the doing the jujitsu and like learning

08:32to fall and all these different things like how to protect yourself and he put on more

08:36weight, which obviously this year he's taken off because he wanted to be more mobile, but

08:40that's not why the injury happened, but I do think that for someone

08:44with his history. Just gotta be smarter

08:48slide protect yourself tuck your chin

08:52like and and I also have friends say like why doesn't he why doesn't he wear the

08:56Guardian cap? I'm not sure that the Guardian cap does what people

09:00think it does. I also know that it's heavy and it's hot

09:04which I think is why you see a lot of players who had to wear it in the

09:08preseason as mandated by the league during practices and whatnot who aren't wearing it

09:12in games because it's just not comfortable imagine wearing something that's

09:16going to contain the heat in your helmet on a night when it's 80 something degrees

09:20with 85% humidity like and again, you can say like look man. He's got

09:24this history should just do it. Well. Yeah. He also doesn't want to like get sick. It's

09:28just it's a whole it's a whole thing. It's really unfortunate and now

09:32you know, I appreciate Mike McDaniel saying basically like

09:36we're not we're not putting a timetable on this. Don't ask me, you know people are asking me

09:40if you should give up the game. That's not his decision. That's two and his family's decision

09:44to make and that's always the overreaction in the immediate near aftermath of one of

09:48these things, but he's just basically like he's got to go home. He's going to

09:52be with his family. He's going to be as I think he said he's going to be the captain of his family right now

09:56and he's going to rest and get better and then we'll talk about what the next

10:00step is and I think that was a good sort of pump the brakes everyone

10:04like yes, we're upset. He was McDaniel many of the

10:08to his teammates were very emotional about it, but it's also like don't go

10:12ahead of yourself. Now. Let's just calm down. Let's figure this out

10:16and as he gets better, the conversations will get more serious about what he's

10:20going to do. Yeah, I just I don't think and I don't mean to be condescending. I just

10:24don't think that any of our places to tell to what he should do is retire. Don't worry.

10:28Hey, I can't honestly I can't stand it like he's a grown man

10:32and if he this is what he wants to do. This is

10:36what he loves to do and if and if he gets clearance to come back and he wants

10:40to come back keep your mouth shut. Let him come back. That's yeah. That's his

10:44deal. Yeah, like I appreciate like I'm you know Matt and Bart Scott both had kind of vulnerable

10:48moments and Matt is really closer to us. So to me, it means a little bit more just in the aspect

10:52of like he knows him and in different stuff like that, but I just don't think this needs

10:56to be. I think we need to focus on what we need to focus on and try not to like

11:00do this declarative statements one way or another like

11:04it's less than 24 hours 12 hours ago. Really like let's just

11:08let him let's let to get back to being fully

11:12right and cleared to even do any type of that physical activity before we start to

11:16do the whole what you should do. Yeah. What do you what so they

11:20have said Skylar Thompson they will move. They're going to add a veteran quarterback, but Skylar

11:24Thompson will be the starter. Of course he came in last night as the backup.

11:28What do you think they should do if this is something that

11:32takes a while if we're talking about a four or six weeks eight weeks

11:36situation here again, we're not putting timetables on it, but as a team they

11:40have to think about how they approach the quarterback position here in the short term.

11:44Yeah, I thought a lot about in terms of you know different options. You know you've seen

11:48I think Adam Beasley of I think Pro Football Network suggested potentially

11:52Jimmy Garoppolo and you know we've seen Mike White was in the system.

11:56Do they bring him back? I know I think he's in the bills in a practice squad. Is it

12:00you know looking for you know, I don't know moving and move for all these

12:04different quarterbacks, right? You know Bailey's a piece of the world these different guys that like

12:08how they have starting experience. The one that kind of came to mind is Matt Jones.

12:12I know Patriots fans will probably laugh at my laugh at the suggestion,

12:16but you know some of these guys played with some of these guys played with

12:20two obviously and you know played with Jalen Waddell and

12:24familiar with the division. A lot of starting experience quite durable

12:28as well. Probably see functions a lot better in that timing. Kind of get the

12:32ball out. Pro style kind of quarterback. Very similar just in terms of like

12:36Matt Jones. Bigger things were accuracy and you know pocket

12:40awareness. Things like that. Obviously it dwindles a lot in New England at the end, but looked like he

12:44found himself a bit Jacksonville Jacksonville. Obviously with CJ Beathard Matt Jones

12:48and Trevor Lawrence that there's been there a lot. Obviously and you know they

12:52trust him more than Mac will see on those different types of things wouldn't cost a lot. I think for Miami

12:56it just seems like is that maybe a play where like hey if two is at six weeks

13:00eight weeks. I don't know is the effort a year who knows. Teams

13:04have made the playoffs with Matt Jones at quarterback obviously so that's just

13:08a name to me. I don't know what he calls the fifth round pick six round pick

13:12Jimmy's going to cost more and he's way less durable and I don't even know that he's better than

13:16Matt Jones. So Matt Jones to me is the name that like if I was Miami

13:20that's who I would look to to make a potential move for it.

13:24It's an interesting one. Obviously we've heard Brady's name get brought up because there are

13:28a lot of people that just want Brady back in the game. I don't. Obviously there was a

13:32pursuit that led to Brian Flores and his issues in Miami with

13:36Brady pursuing Brady and Flores not wanting to

13:40make a legal contact with Brady. Curious if he's interested. I know he's sort of hinted

13:44at various points. Maybe he would be Ryan Tannehill is another name that's been out there and

13:48even more so this week with the Jordan love stuff and would Green

13:52Bay want to go that route. Does Tannehill fit that though. Does he

13:56fit that McDaniels offense. I don't know that he does. I just think

14:00he holds the ball forever. Yes. I just think you're looking

14:04at that point like we want a veteran with some experience and yeah

14:08signing him versus giving up a pick I guess. Right exactly. So again we'll see

14:12we're getting ahead of ourselves but that's something that I'm sure they're having conversations about

14:16in the Miami offices right now. Could you go

14:20from Dallas because that dude just wins football games. I bet you Trey Lance is available.

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16:16And that leads us to the week 2 slate. We'll start

16:20in Dallas. Saints 1-0. Cowboys 1-0.

16:24And for me, Cowboys are favored

16:28in this game by 6. New Orleans, there's been a little

16:32frisky, there's been a buzz about New Orleans. From the people that cover New Orleans

16:36Nick Andreal does a great job covering that team and I've talked to Nick a little bit

16:40and just saying like Clint Kubiak is the new offensive coordinator and

16:44it just feels like maybe just maybe they found some answers

16:48to solve their offensive inconsistency. Derrick Carr looked fantastic

16:52albeit against the Carolina Panthers, arguably the worst football team in the league.

16:56He was pressured on just 12% of his dropbacks in that Saints game.

17:00So can this offensive line with Fuaga, the rookie

17:04first rounder at one tackle and Trevor Penning who has been a major

17:08league disappointment thus far but had a solid opening game

17:12at the other tackle spot, can they protect Carr? Because if they can't

17:16we're going to see the old Derrick Carr seeing ghosts, throwing the ball to the other team

17:20or just you know it's third and 12 and I'm going to take the two yard check down because

17:24I don't want to throw an interception or I don't want to get hit and we've seen

17:28that story play out before but again with Kubiak maybe there's more

17:32comfort there. Maybe it plays better into his strengths. It certainly did in week

17:36one. I have a hard time believing New Orleans is going to go in there

17:40against Dallas, against that defense. Micah Parsons

17:44they had last game against Cleveland six sacks and 24

17:48pressures against Cleveland. I could see that being a massive

17:52problem for New Orleans in this game. Yeah, this kind of screams

17:56let down game for the Panthers. Division game, a lot of pressure on them. Hey, you got to

18:00get that one against Carolina opening week. They blow them out.

18:04It's all hunky-dory. Everyone doesn't hate Derrick Carr anymore.

18:08Dennis Allen's a great coach. The defense isn't old. Look at what they did to Bryce Young.

18:12Dallas, I thought, played like a C plus level game

18:16and blew the doors off of Cleveland in Cleveland.

18:20They're going home. I think it's another full week of no distractions.

18:24It actually feels like Dallas is in a good place. Dax's contract is taken care of.

18:28CD Lamb's back in the mix. Obviously, it looks quite good.

18:32Another week under Mike Zimmer. This feels like Mike Zimmer versus Derrick Carr is a

18:36bad recipe for Derrick Carr. I think the Saints defense will keep this

18:40a competitive football game for large portions.

18:44Again, I think Dallas is not the team they were in the last couple years in terms of

18:48just overall talent. Mike Zimmer versus Derrick Carr, I'm going to get

18:52Mike Zimmer as a defense coordinator. I'm going to take Mike Zimmer all day. I think Dallas wins this game

18:56and I actually think this is a game where you go, yeah, were we right to think New Orleans is an 8-win

19:00team and Dallas is a 10-win team or 7-win team, whatever it is.

19:04This feels like a classic. People are going to go, ooh, the Saints are sneaky

19:08sweet. Maybe I'm wrong, but I just don't see it.

19:12That's it for me. If the Saints go in there and play well or somehow manage the upset,

19:16okay, now the conversation advances to what the people

19:20who watched them closely during training camp sort of felt about them, particularly on offense,

19:24but if it doesn't, we're back to the same old place. Well, it's Derrick Carr.

19:28How far can you go with Derrick Carr? All right, let's go to

19:32Bucks at Lions. Lions favored by a touchdown.

19:36Obviously coming off a thrilling Sunday night game victory in overtime

19:40over the Rams. That was a heavyweight fight. For me,

19:44again, I'm looking at the visiting team here because I think when we talked about in the preview,

19:48I said, can Baker Mayfield, who's been good of three of the seven years he's been in the league,

19:52including last year, his first year in Tampa, is he that guy

19:56or is he the guy who continues to go back and regress and teams are looking to replace

20:00him as opposed to getting at least a healthy short-term

20:04contract extension with Tampa. But he looked dangerous. Again, much like with Derrick

20:08Carr, it was against an inferior opponent. They were playing Washington, but

20:12he moved well in the pocket. He and Mike Evans

20:16have a, I mean, everybody seems to have a pretty good relationship with Mike Evans in terms of

20:20especially around the goal line, getting him the football. Can they hold up

20:24against a physical Lions team that Aiden Hutchinson,

20:28again, you want to talk about pressures, Aiden Hutchinson had 11 pressures

20:32in the opener against the Rams. Granted, he was chewing up backup second and third

20:36string guys, but he's that kind of player and he's someone who can ruin

20:40a game and I'm just curious to see how the Bucs, their offensive line

20:44and Baker hold up against it on the road. Yeah, I'll be interested to see how this game

20:48kind of starts and finishes in terms of, kind of feels a little bit like

20:52we're going to get Bucs riding that high, Rams

20:56obviously playing the overtime late night game on Sunday

21:00and then I could see the Lions kind of maybe starting a little bit slower, Bucs kind of starting

21:04fast and the Lions grown into this football game a little bit. Kind of

21:08feels like the riding high momentum again kind of factor with Tampa and then

21:12kind of what we saw last year in the divisional round where it felt like good game, good game, but

21:16Detroit kind of outlasted them, just had more bodies, more physical, etc.

21:20I'll be interested to see how Detroit just responds in terms of

21:24again, the Rams play them really damn tough and we talked so much about that game.

21:28Again, physical football game, that back-to-back games at home

21:32it's that one o'clock window, these two teams played each other. The second to last time

21:36these two team starters were playing, they were playing against each other.

21:40I think this is a big, can Todd Bowles figure out a way to fluster Jared Goff?

21:44That's what it comes down to in the fourth quarter and can Baker avoid those

21:48one or two mistakes that he's done a good job of limiting, but

21:52he does have those in his game where when he starts to get really, really

21:56confident and play really well, it's kind of usually there's a little bit of a dip.

22:00I expect Detroit to kind of outlast them here. I think it'll be a good football game. This kind of feels

22:04like your classic 27-20, 27-23, but

22:08the game wasn't really, game was kind of over with five minutes

22:12left, but it's closer than it looks. I'm leaning Detroit here, but

22:16I do feel like this will be at least a good game, especially in the first half.

22:20Let's move on to the next one, Colts and Packers.

22:24This one is obviously very interesting because Jordan Love got hurt

22:28and the initial thought was Jordan Love is out three, six weeks,

22:32somewhere in that range. It's been 10 days since the injury that he suffered in Brazil

22:36to the MCL, and yet Matt LaFleur

22:40is probably just gamesmanship, but he's like, ah, it's a day-to-day.

22:44He's taking mental reps like he's going to play this week.

22:48I think it's BS. I think we're going to see Malik Willis, and then the question

22:52becomes, can LaFleur, who is respected as an offensive

22:56mind, obviously, can he find a way

23:00to get Malik Willis to play competent football because

23:04that's not how it went in Tennessee. Let's not forget that when he got the opportunity

23:08to play in Tennessee, they had to bench him for Josh Dobbs, who got there

23:12two minutes beforehand, and then Dobbs went out and ran the offense much more

23:16efficiently than Willis did, who had already been with the team and already

23:20allegedly knew the playbook. That, to me, is

23:24a fascinating part of this one. Obviously, for Green Bay, you lose

23:28the opener, and now you're likely without Jordan Love.

23:32Digging yourself a hole in that division and that

23:36conference, that's not what you're looking for. Starting 0-2

23:40would be a very bad thing, so I'm curious how LaFleur games this up

23:44to get his offense somewhere in the 20s because I think that's what it's going to take

23:48to win. Yeah, it'll be interesting. Gus Bradley game, we talked so much about

23:52his defense and not really adjusting much, kind of we are who we are.

23:56The Texans ran all over them, and if you're Green Bay, you go out and pay Josh Jacobs big money.

24:00You've got a solid offensive line. This is a

24:04we're going to run the football 40 times, try to keep this

24:08kind of rock fight a little bit and keep this in the teams maybe.

24:12Look, if you're expecting Malik, maybe Malik Willis has flashes on Sunday,

24:16but if you're expecting anything out of Malik Willis, I think you're

24:20severely mistaken a little bit based on some of that draft type.

24:24I'm not trying to be a dick. He does have a great arm, and he's a good

24:28athlete and all these different things, but the processing and things like that

24:32have been hard to watch, and that's why he's available for

24:36trade as a third, whatever, third pick two years later is available for trade

24:40the day before the season starts or whatever it is. This is going to have to get

24:44really creative, really gadgety, very Mike White versus the Bengals. I know it's a very

24:48different type of player, but it was very much like Jets were doing laterals and backpasses

24:52and quarterbacks running out routes and doing just crazy

24:56stuff to try to get manufacturer a win or two while their guys out.

25:00I'd be shocked if Jordan Love plays in the next couple weeks. I think this is a classic

25:04we want the Colts to prepare for him, but this is Anthony Richardson

25:08and I think Ryan Russo had a really good point on this. As special as those plays

25:12are, we talked about this on whatever Monday, there's five or six

25:16played in nine passes. If you're

25:20Green Bay, like Jared Alexander's a top five highest paid corner. This defense is

25:24what seven of 11 first round picks and new defensive coordinator and the whole thing

25:28like I just gave up 30 plus last week. Can you hold a team that

25:3220.17 points punch that run the rock a million

25:36different ways and try to get out of there with a scrappy

25:40disgusting win and then at least you're one and one and you're on the board

25:44and you're a week closer to Jordan Love returning and getting back to full health.

25:48I think this is a must win for the Colts. Dropping 0-2 in this conference is

25:52not great and on top of that, you are the fully healthy team.

25:56You are the team that's playing a backup quarterback and if that it's really a third string level quarterback

26:00you gotta get a win here and see more

26:04progression out of Richardson, more progression out of some of these young players and

26:08if I'm them, I'm taking chances because

26:12you feel like you can stop Malik Willis the whole rest of the game. Go get

26:16some of those Anthony Richardson big plays that turn into touchdowns, deep shots, etc.

26:20We saw Jared Alexander get beat by AJ Bratton last week.

26:24I would use Alec Pierce the way they used him last week and just say, hey dude, you're running 65

26:28win sprints. We'll get you the ball at some point. Go as far as you

26:32can as fast as you can. Another matchup of 0-1

26:36teams that both have expectations for this season

26:40that's the Browns and the Jags. Jags favored in this one

26:44Cleveland was so bad

26:48in that game and it sparked so much conversation about Deshaun Watson

26:52and how poorly he's played, which we've highlighted here, how little he's played and when he

26:56has played, how poorly he's played. They just moved money around again with him

27:00prior to the season. They're on the hook for a godly

27:04amount of cash with a quarterback who does not look anything like the

27:08guy that we saw in the COVID year and that's the last time he was any good in the COVID

27:12season. No completions over 15 yards against the Cowboys.

27:16One first down in the entire first half.

27:20Ben has a week where there's another lawsuit.

27:24There's a death in the family. There's just a mountain

27:28of stuff that continues to come his way and I keep thinking to myself

27:32when does Cleveland say, hey Jameis, warm up

27:36because you can't run your season into the ground

27:40and again the financial commitment is so huge but he

27:44hasn't played well and Jacksonville did play well

27:48until the very end of their game in Miami when they blew that

27:5217-7 lead. I have questions about the Jags

27:56which I've said here, particularly about Doug Peterson

28:00and the press Taylor offense and are they getting, are they utilizing

28:04their personnel the right way? What is their identity? I thought Trevor actually played

28:08well in Miami but again not a ton of throws, just 21 throws

28:12in that game so both teams 0-1. This one feels

28:16like Jim Schwartz is going to pull everything that he possibly has out of the bag

28:20because I think he knows he has to pull everything out of the bag because

28:24their offense is not capable of carrying their fair

28:28share of the load. Yeah, this is a, I think this game

28:32matters more for the Jags than the Browns and I say that just because I feel like

28:36the Jags would now be two conference

28:40losses already, two teams that they potentially could have tiebreakers with

28:44for wildcard spots, etc. I feel like there was moments where Trevor Lawrence looked

28:48quite good and there was moments where the team overall looked quite good and then they obviously

28:52collapsed in a pretty drastic way. I thought the O-line started to get

28:56kind of run over towards the end of that game. I thought defensively they weren't

29:00really stopping people.

29:04These two teams, we kind of know what the Browns are. I just don't really

29:08feel like we know what the Jags are at this point. We know they have flashes. Brian Thomas Jr.

29:12looked really good and we know at moments Etienne and Evan Ingram and

29:16Christian Kirk have shown flashes but

29:20what are they really? I just feel like for them you got to get it done because then they go up to

29:24Buffalo in 8 days time or 10 days time from now.

29:28Starting 0-3 would look quite bad. The Browns at least have the Giants coming in. The Cowboys were a

29:32non-conference loss. If you started 1-2 and you beat the Giants

29:36at least it's only one non-conference loss. Maybe quarterback starts to become a better

29:40issue there. This game and the Giants game we won't hit on the Giants

29:44team too much but these are the two games where quarterbacks getting benched is potentially already on the

29:48table. I know they're going to try to ride it out with Watson as

29:52much as they can in terms of him being the starter and who knows what's

29:56going to happen off this field and stuff. I don't know that Jameis is

30:00as good of an option. Stephancy kind of likes that

30:04boring type of quarterback but then again Flacco is a big time risk taker and

30:08did quite well with this team last year. While Nick Chubb

30:12is getting back healthy they got to just figure out a way. This defense also has got to

30:16really carry this team for the next couple weeks until they

30:20settle. This is one of those games where

30:24I feel like it's probably going to be quite ugly.

30:28I think the Jags need it a little bit more but both teams really start 1-2.

30:32It's not a recipe for success. No, it definitely is not. Let's move to

30:3649ers and Vikings. Niners favored by six.

30:40Sammy D, Sammy Darnold versus his former team. Yes, that one year

30:44he spent in San Francisco. We saw the Niners make the

30:48Jets one-dimensional on Monday night.

30:52If they make the Vikings one-dimensional and put it on Darnold

30:56for all the good vibes it feels like Sammy's going to put the ball in harm's way

31:00and that's going to make a massive difference in this game. I think the other thing that

31:04stands out to me is when they played last year and granted

31:08it was not Sam Darnold the quarterback

31:12but it was Brock Purdy. Minnesota and we know Flores loves to get after

31:16the quarterback. They averaged 11 yards against the Blitz

31:20last year. San Francisco did against the Vikings in that game.

31:24Does Flores learn from that and say, no, we're just going to rush four.

31:28You're not going to know where it's coming from but I'm not going to put myself in that position

31:32against this offense. This is a big Flores game.

31:36Got to be better prepared. I thought the Jets scheme-wise did a pretty poor

31:40job against the Niners on Monday night. We'll see what McAfee looks like.

31:44They're practicing in full pads but I wouldn't risk it.

31:48I said it last week and I thought it was a smart decision.

31:52They've already thrown the Achilles tendonitis thing on it now too so it's just like

31:56calf, ankle, now Achilles. He's the guy who usually recovers quite slow

32:00actually if you look back in the past where he's come back from hamstrings

32:04and what not. They need him for weeks 18

32:08I mean really 19 through to 23 or whatever it is. They don't need him

32:12this season clearly. The Niners will be a much bigger, Nick both had some

32:16interesting comments during the week. Said the Vikings are a much better team than the Jets are

32:20and it's a much harder game. It is what it is. Kevin O'Connell is going to need to put

32:24Sam Darnold in a lot of good situations. I think trying to not let Fred Warner

32:28wreck the game is something the Jets were not able to do.

32:32Aaron Jones has had success versus this Niners team. Is he able to, although he always seems

32:36to get hulked down and the team ends up losing the game and it happens in the playoffs

32:40the last couple of times he's played against the Niners but Justin Jefferson

32:44should have an advantage against any player. He didn't get the ball enough I thought on Sunday.

32:48Again, both teams coming off comfortable wins. It just, I feel like this is

32:52a game where you trust the Niners. That said, Minnesota played Brock Purdy

32:56about as good as you could play him last year and

33:00that was with Christian McCaffrey but that game, I don't know. Some of those games were like if you told me

33:04San Francisco loses, I could see the path but it feels

33:08like the smart choice on paper is definitely the Niners so I don't know.

33:12The Niners feel quite strong right now regardless of injury. Trent Williams, another game

33:16under his belt. IU should be in much better shape. As much as McCaffrey

33:20is a loss, Trent Williams looks like he's about 40 pounds heavier

33:24than he probably needs to be but still is amazing. He'll start to get back into full Trent Williams.

33:28When he was golfing, he was riding the card. He was not walking the course. I think

33:32that's pretty evident. Let's move on to Seahawks and Patriots. Both teams

33:36I wanna know. Patriots a home opener. Three-point dogs in the home opener.

33:40There's obviously a lot of good vibes based on their victory

33:44in week one upsetting Cincinnati. We know about Cincinnati's history in early

33:48season games under Zach Taylor. They're terrible. Never mind the Jamar Chase

33:52nonsense. No T Higgins in that game but whatever. The Patriots

33:56played some bully ball. They were the more physical team. They were the more

34:00well-prepared team. They didn't make mistakes in that game. Feels like

34:04we're gonna need the same formula against the Seahawks and not that I believe the Seahawks are a great

34:08team and obviously it's a difficult challenge for any West Coast team to come and

34:12play a 1 o'clock game. We're essentially waking up at like five in the morning your time and

34:16playing, you know, warming up at 7 o'clock and the whole nine yards.

34:20So, for me, all that stuff I look at, can the Patriots

34:24offensive line hold up against what Mike McDonald does?

34:28What he wants to do? Denver certainly couldn't do it and we know how

34:32well-regarded Sean Payton is as an offensive mind. There was

34:36a lot of pressure. Yes, he had a rookie quarterback back there. They struggled

34:40to run the football in that game. Patriots offensive line was not nearly as good

34:44as people try or continuing to try to make it out after week one. This

34:48is a far greater challenge for them and I'm just curious, can they do

34:52they're gonna have to do better because there are a lot of miscommunications

34:56and when you talk about the McDonald defense, this Ravens defense that he's brought to

35:00Seattle, it's about where the pressure is coming from. He's showing seven but

35:04only four are coming but they're not the four you expect and communication and

35:08following your rules has to be perfect for this offensive line that's still coming

35:12together and in the game against Cincinnati where I don't think

35:16Louie Annarumo went crazy in that game in terms of some of the stuff that he had dialed

35:20up. Basically, I think he kind of felt like you can't block Trey Hendrickson. He's gonna ruin the game

35:24for you and he almost did but I'm curious

35:28with the amount of free rushers they gave up in that first game. If now

35:32you're talking about a scheme that is predicated on that, is the

35:36communication, it's gonna have to be significantly better for them to

35:40have sort of a duplicate performance in terms of ground

35:44success and keeping Jacoby Brissett. I mean he had one sack

35:48but he was under pressure 52% of the time. That's not usually a good recipe

35:52for continued success going forward. Yeah, I was gonna go out

35:56on a limb and say that I think the Patriots start 2-0. My worry

36:00is that as you mentioned, I think you mentioned where Montrey got

36:04hit or whatever, whoever the running back at the time in each play was like 26 to 32 times

36:08by the line of scrimmage. I think pressured on 50 plus percent of snaps.

36:12I think that obviously in my opinion Cincinnati's

36:16defense talent wise especially up front is very good but

36:20and it's on the road and first game and there's a lot to be made of that.

36:24They're gonna need to be so good on defense, which I think they can

36:28be and they're a really good defense. Obviously, New England was a year ago.

36:32They've been forever. Look, the Broncos rushed for 4 yards

36:36a pop. They didn't get to run the ball enough. They were kind of what the Patriots

36:40offense was in a lot of ways where they just threw the ball 2 or 3 yards down the field and

36:44ran the football and tried to play. It's a close game.

36:48I feel like the biggest reason to kind of feel like New England wins

36:52this game is home opener, really well disciplined team. Can you get a turnover

36:56out of Geno or can you get something wonky? The two safeties last week

37:00were nuts. Special teams wise, the Patriots have been good in the past. Can they

37:04continue that? Obviously, you mentioned it's the 1 o'clock

37:08early season still. It's the weird. We just saw the Jets kind of go through

37:12where they look like today's gold in the beginning of that game. That was a night game, let alone

37:16obviously Seahawks coming here and warming up

37:205, 6 a.m. their time. McDonald, you would assume

37:24two first-time head coaches, both of whom's style kind of took over the game in both games.

37:28So credit to both coaches. Seattle's obviously more talented. They should

37:32win this game. They're probably looking at this as like a gimme.

37:36I also feel like New England's got two games in five

37:40days here that they probably feel like, can we steal one of these and start

37:442-1? Again, further emphasize Gerard Mayo, further emphasize

37:48some of these young players, Christian Gonzalez on DK, how much they

37:52kind of deploy him in man, how much they let him shadow him.

37:56I just think this is one of those games where I said it and I will

38:00pull up the receipts. I think the Dolphins, I said it before last night's

38:04game that it would be Buffalo 2-0, New England 2-0,

38:08Jets 1-1, Miami 1-1, Miami in last place based on a conference loss.

38:12I'm going to stick to it, but I just

38:16think we're getting 2-0 New England going up to MetLife or going down to MetLife in four

38:20days. I might be wrong and I might get Layne Lett lose by 30, but

38:24I don't know. I have a feeling that New England's going to be one of those spunky teams the first couple weeks

38:28and then the talent will take over as the season goes on. So when I had them preseason,

38:32before the season predictions 5-12, but

38:36this was a game I had them winning. So I'm sticking with it.

38:40Again, the roster is not good, but

38:44it's been a good start. I think they can finally get a win at home. They were 1-7,

38:48actually 1-8 if you want to count the Germany game because they were technically the home team at home

38:52last year. Start to build a culture of like, hey, we play well here. It's not easy

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40:20to get those picks. Now let's move on to Jets and

40:24Titans. Jets favor by 3.5 points.

40:28I look at this game and say I was surprised at how well

40:32the 49ers ran the ball against the Jets.

40:36It took me by great surprise. I know Mosley went down and they just started

40:40to eat. Can Tony Pollard

40:44and Tajay Spears and the Titans do the same thing

40:48to this Jets defense or to the Jets defense say, look, that was just one bad week

40:52and we're back to business and we're back to being a top five

40:56defense like I expect them to be, like you expect them to be.

41:00I think the biggest key for the Jets is getting off the field. I thought defensively the game plan

41:04was off. I thought, frankly, outside of some Garrett

41:08Wilson, I don't think anybody on their team played well.

41:12Rogers was okay. Not one of their stars. Before the season

41:16they've got eight, nine guys who could be all pros this year, been all pros in the last

41:2036 months. Maybe one and a half of them played

41:24above a C-level game. That'll be a big thing.

41:28There was a little bit of a humbling that occurred last week

41:32or whatever, four or five days ago. That locker room knows long season.

41:36This is, again, a team that got a punch in the mouth by Baltimore two years ago

41:40with Joe Flacco and the company and then went on a run of six of seven against

41:44a far harder schedule than they have come up the next six weeks. That was with Zach Wilson

41:48and Joe Flacco, a quarterback. Teams under Robert Sala

41:52have started slow. They usually catch fire a little bit in the next six

41:56or seven weeks. This is a great place to start. They have four

42:00games they're favored by over the next four weeks. They've got to get

42:04back to doing what they're good at, rushing four, hitting the quarterback, tackling well, those linebackers

42:08flying around. Offensively, I think Aaron Rogers had what, 32

42:12or 38 snaps total. On Monday, they had defense

42:16on the field for 72. Rogers will look better, look more

42:20comfortable again. First game back on turf. The weather might be an issue, obviously

42:24with the hurricane stuff. It's supposed to pass by Sunday kickoff. We'll see.

42:28Jets got to run the football, pass pro, much improved from the last

42:3210 years, frankly. On Monday night, they couldn't run the football

42:36and I think Bruce Hall had 64 yards, 13 carries, but two of those were

42:40big runs. The rest were like one, two yards. Jets lost the turnover battle and then

42:44Tennessee, they showed a lot of signs of

42:48what they did in the offseason. They added the offensive line, so they ran

42:52the football quite decently, obviously bringing Bill Callahan and Brian Callahan, obviously, for that matter.

42:56Defensively, he showed some nice things.

43:00Will Levis is a guy who, you can't

43:04do that. Tua did it last night in a different way.

43:08I'm going to throw it away and I referenced Stroud almost doing it. He's like, I'm going to throw it away, but

43:12not throw the ball. It's like this was Zach Wilson years ago.

43:16You're going to throw it away, dude. The ball's got to end up in the

43:2018th row of the sideline.

43:24Hopefully, I get it out of bounds, whatever it may be.

43:28Levis, three turnovers, one of them at the end of the game. I get it. They ran the ball decently.

43:32I expect them to try to run the ball the entire game. Dehop seemingly getting

43:36healthier. Him and Ridley haven't been on the same page, but that right side of the offensive line

43:40really struggled a week ago. I don't know, Quinn Williams and Jermaine Johnson

43:44are not really the ideal next pairing to go up against.

43:48Like I said, if you're Tennessee, can you get interior pressure and force Aaron Rodgers outside the pocket

43:52of Simmons and Meatloaf to Andre Sweat?

43:56The last thing I say is

44:00what they do with LeJarrius Sneed with Gary Wilson will be really interesting.

44:04They ran a lot of cover three, I think 34% of the time, 35% of the time last week

44:08that was by far and away their most predominant coverage.

44:12Caleb Williams and Aaron Rodgers are a little different at this point in their career. Maybe Caleb gets to become Aaron Rodgers

44:16who's his favorite player and all that. That's great. Right now, the way he's

44:20diagnosed defense is very different.

44:24If you're going to sit back and zone, Rodgers will pick you apart, and if they're going to try to blitz with

44:28Mann, the Jets are probably going to utilize a lot of Brees Hall.

44:32People are really down on the Jets right now and not that down on the Titans

44:36considering the way that game went. I think you'll be leaving Sunday

44:40excelling. Jets-Pats is probably much more the matchup we thought

44:44it was a month ago than we thought it probably was two days ago.

44:48It's a fair point. Rams and Cardinals.

44:52Cardinals are favored in this game, granted

44:56by a point, point and a half. Stafford was awesome

45:00against Detroit. He did have the one regrettable interception, but otherwise

45:04Baller standing in there with an offensive line that's in shambles, that

45:08remains in shambles. The injuries are still an issue for them going into this game.

45:12Signing dudes off practice squads. They're in a rough way.

45:16Arizona's defense is Swiss cheesy,

45:20despite Jonathan Gannon's background and despite them being frisky at the end of last

45:24year. Can't pressure the quarterback. I

45:28have a hard time thinking that Sean McVay is going to let his team fall

45:32to 0-2 even if they're on the road. I have a lot of faith in that dude. I have a lot of faith in that

45:36quarterback. Cooper Cup, targeted 21

45:40times. He ran 9 million miles

45:44in that game. He was in motion. Just crazy stuff.

45:48They probably want a little more diversity in their offense, but he still had 14

45:52catches. I have a hard time

45:56seeing Sean McVay in L.A. lose in Arizona

46:00despite the injuries.

46:04Again, yes, obviously with the injuries. I wasn't

46:08as high in Arizona coming into the year. I don't expect them to be a team that

46:12is fun to watch. The Marvin Harrison Jr. questions are

46:16a bit odd this week. Everyone, obviously, too slow. All these different things.

46:20I never saw that on tape with Marvin Harrison.

46:24This is one of those games where the Rams kind of need this game

46:28if they are going to be who we think they can be.

46:32Can you try to steal one here? I don't know.

46:36This is a game that should be exciting. Divisional games are always

46:40much closer than we think. In Arizona, it's a bit spunky.

46:44This Rams defense will be interesting. How do they attack Kyler? How do they

46:48attack this running game?

46:52If he's not going to get rushed, you expect Cooper Cup to get peppered with

46:56targets. They'll lean on Kyron Williams. Obviously, with Puka out for the next month or so,

47:00Cooper Cup's probably going to have 1,000 targets. I'd expect the Rams

47:04to get it done here. Again, I think this will be a little bit closer.

47:08The spread indicates it should be quite a close game. I'd like to see some play.

47:12Corum, too. Corum had a really good preseason and was thought to be

47:16involved. Then, as McVeigh said, the way the game played out

47:20in Detroit, it just wasn't a perfect fit for him. I could see him

47:24getting more touches in this game. Let's go to the best team in the AFC,

47:28the Cincinnati Bengals. I'm quoting Jamar Chase

47:32who decided to bust that out earlier this week.

47:36They're at Kansas City. The Chiefs, a six-point favorite. Bengals, obviously, 0-1

47:40having lost to the Patriots. Kansas City, victorious

47:44in the opener against Baltimore.

47:48Jamar, he's had a weird six

47:52weeks, that comment. I appreciate the confidence, but they're probably

47:56going into this one without Tee Higgins again. There's questions about Burrow and the wrist.

48:00We saw him flexing the wrist quite a bit during the course of the game. They didn't push the ball

48:04down the field, which the Patriots were complicit in. Obviously, they wanted to keep everything in front of them.

48:08Did a very good job of that. I can't imagine Steve Spagnola is going to

48:12approach it any differently, at least to start.

48:16You have Jamar, who's not in perfect game shape yet

48:20because, as we mentioned, he didn't practice football all summer.

48:24With no Higgins, that other option, that guy that could take the top off the defense

48:28isn't there. It just feels like a really rough spot for Cincinnati.

48:32It feels like they're going to get off to another 0-2 start under Zach Taylor.

48:36It's weird because everything tells you

48:40the Chiefs are going to win this game

48:44a comfortable 30-20 game,

48:4827-17 type of affair. Burrow is 3-1

48:52against Mahomes. They do seem to play their best football when they play against the Chiefs.

48:56They feel like they're the one team that can give Mahomes and the Chiefs the biggest problems.

49:00I would argue that's not the case, but I guess the stats indicate

49:04that is the case. I think there is a lot of mental games with Jamar

49:08and I think Ken Taylor-Britt and a couple other guys.

49:12They do a lot of talking, especially when it comes to the Chiefs.

49:16One thing that's a bit annoying to me is

49:20Joe Burrow, if you don't keep your wrist loose, you lose it.

49:24I was like, okay, I guess.

49:28I'm not saying that I don't get it.

49:32My knee exploded. I went to wearing a sleeve on my left leg

49:36no matter what I'm doing athletically because it makes me feel more comfortable

49:40and it is loosened up. I get it.

49:44Joe Burrow has been healthy at all. He's been amazing.

49:48When he plays banged up, we've seen a lot of limited

49:52they've not been a good football team when he's not 100% right. How right is Jamar Chase?

49:56I just didn't understand

50:00we're going to go into this game. I guess that's kind of the Bengals thing.

50:04That's their thing with the Chiefs is we're going to be the team that talks a lot of trash and Josh Norman

50:08with Odell type of thing. Even if we lose, I'm just going to keep chirping.

50:12There's only one of two things happen.

50:16This game is going to be like the Chiefs are going to have a lot to say after the game.

50:20The win, like I said, 27-17, 30-20, whatever, or we get a Bengals win

50:24and then we go, oh my God, are they the number one competition

50:28a week after losing to the Patriots? It just doesn't feel like it's a Bengals close loss.

50:32It feels like they win this game and everyone's like, ooh,

50:36are Burrow and the Bengals back or they're going to probably miss the playoffs

50:40and the Chiefs are clearly the best team in the league. I just don't see it in between here.

50:44This is not one of those games I see that happening.

50:48We had four games that we put in the also-ran category.

50:52Chargers, Panthers, Raiders, Ravens, Steelers, Broncos.

50:56You mentioned

51:00earlier, this is a game, the Giants-Commanders,

51:04are we on Daniel Jones' watch already? Is it possible?

51:08Why was Shane Daniels rookie of the week?

51:12Because counting stats, 180 passing and 88 rushing.

51:16If you watch the game,

51:20any sign of trouble, he was taken off. I don't know how you play offense like that.

51:24And quite frankly, I don't know how he survives playing like that.

51:28But that's a game where...

51:32The Giants have to win this game, no? Yes. And look, Daniel Jones has

51:36played well against Washington. Granted, this is a different regime. It's Dan Quinn's defense and all that.

51:40But yeah, he's got to stand up and deliver in this one.

51:44Yeah, he's had success against Washington. It's probably the one team he's had his most success

51:48against. That game, obviously, Raiders,

51:52Ravens, I expect the Ravens to

51:56roll and roll quite comfortably. Yes.

52:00This is a game I think we leave when Devontae starts getting a little

52:04more chippy. I think we're going to start seeing

52:08a little bit of, yeah, I love my teammates, love my coaches,

52:12I want to win, blah, blah, blah. It's going to get louder and louder each week.

52:16Interesting what Brock Bowers and these guys look like. Again, I want to see this defense in the Raiders

52:20kind of create more pressure on the defensive line. Obviously, Spillane

52:24had a really nice week last week. But again, losing a division game, I just expect the Ravens to

52:28kind of roll here and get a little more four-touchdown, 250-yard.

52:32Is he going to go back-to-back? They're three MVP, not

52:36back-to-back-to-back, but you get my point. And then Steelers, Broncos,

52:40I just want to hit on it. You can run through those as well.

52:44Can we get a pass above the line of scrimmage from either team in this game?

52:48Because I think both defenses, I expect this to be one of those

52:52if you're the Broncos, you feel like, hey, really good defense, but we could steal

52:56one here. This would be a nice way to start the season, home opener,

53:00whole thing, Windy City, mile high, the whole nine yards.

53:04And if you're Pittsburgh, you're like, can we sneaky start 2-0 against two

53:08offensively inept teams? Steelers' path for winning is kind of what they did last week

53:12and the Broncos is kind of what they did for last week. They just were against a better team.

53:16So, yeah, not overly pumped for any of those games, although

53:20kind of some loser-leave-town already in Week 2 type of matchups.

53:24Absolutely. Yeah, I would expect Sean Payton is not going to allow T.J. Watt

53:28to ruin the game as Atlanta's Raheem Moore's

53:32Zach Robinson allowed him to ruin their home opener.

53:36And then the only thing I'll say about Chargers-Panthers, because we know how bad the Panthers are,

53:40is watching the Chargers back,

53:44it wasn't easy for Herbert. And I mean that,

53:48I just don't, they're just not deep at wide

53:52receiver. They just don't have a lot of playmakers, so they're really going to have to lean on

53:56J.K. Dobbins, Gus Edwards in the run game, because I think

54:00the Herbert that we're used to seeing and sort of the pushing the ball down the field

54:04and making these outrageous throws, I don't know that he's going to get an opportunity to do that very much

54:08this year unless they get some development out of their, well, really about Quentin Johnson

54:12because we know Lad McConkey's going to work the underneath stuff. Alright,

54:16so let's get to it. We teased it, prize picks. I got it done last week and I'm

54:20feeling frisky, feeling frisky this week. I have five.

54:24Five picks for you. Five, let's go. Jonathan

54:28Taylor, touchdowns, that's running or receiving and receiving.

54:32.5, I'm taking more. J.K. Dobbins, same thing.

54:36.5, I'm taking more. Anthony Richardson,

54:4039.5 rushing yards. I'm taking more

54:44on that as well. I think he's going to have to run around, create some stuff. That's who

54:48he is. Jacoby Brissett, the number of passing yards,

54:52183.5, less.

54:56121 in the opener. Probably going to have to throw it more.

55:00I just don't know how much more. Ramondre Stevenson, 63.5

55:04rushing yards. He had, of course, 120 in the opener. I'm going to take more

55:08on that as well. So those are Mike Giardi's prize

55:12picks. I will unveil three.

55:16I'm going to go Derek Howard. Derek Howard, lower in yards.

55:20I just, like I said, Mike Zimmer, I think is

55:24going to cause some problems there. I'm going to go Aaron Rodgers more in touchdowns.

55:28I think we're going to see a, I don't know about yards with Rodgers. He doesn't seem to

55:32throw for the 300-400 yards he used to. He's more of a touchdown merchant, which is not a bad

55:36thing. I think you see him get a couple on the board, two or three

55:40here. He probably should have had two on Monday night in a

55:44Milwaukee game. I'm going to go, I guess I'll give you two more.

55:48I referenced one before. Lamar Jackson more in terms

55:52of rush and pass yards combined. I think it's going to be a big Lamar game.

55:56And lastly, Matt Stafford more

56:00in terms of touchdowns. Again, I think no pass rush from the Cardinals'

56:04perspective. I think we're going to get a Cooper Cup 12 for 174

56:08and two touchdown type of game. And that means Matt Stafford's going to have big time stats.

56:12So that's where I'm going to land on my more or less

56:16prize fix this week. All right. That's going to put a wrap on all 32 for this week

56:20as we get you ready for the week two slate. We'll be back with you on Monday.

56:24Preview the Monday night game and obviously recap the weekend that was, Will.

56:28Always a pleasure. People, reminder, like,

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